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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
When London was capital of America When London was capital of America Julie Flavell Benjamin Franklin secretly loved London and in the decade before the outbreak of the American Revolution, thousands of his fellow colonists flocked to the city. This book recreates the city's hey day… OL15392402W
Sisters of Fortune Sisters of Fortune Jehanne Wake Marianne, Louisa, Emily and Bess Caton were descended from the first settlers in Maryland, and brought up in Baltimore by their grandfather Charles Carroll, one of the Signers of the Declaration of I… OL16810184W
Kick Kennedy Kick Kennedy Barbara Leaming "Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy was the incandescent life-force of the fabled Kennedy family, her father's acknowledged "favorite of all the children" and her brother Jack's "psychological twin." She was th… OL20026439W
Transatlantic Marriage Bureau : Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age Transatlantic Marriage Bureau : Husband Hunting in the Gilded Age Julie Ferry 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm OL21593824W
Benjamin Franklin in London Benjamin Franklin in London George Goodwin xiii, 365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm OL21831145W
The few The few Alex Kershaw This book tells the never-before-told story of the American pilots -- -idealists, adventurers, romantics -- -who joined the RAF before America entered the war and helped save Britain in its darkest h… OL2726854W